Again, the cops and the regime are still scum, people are right to protest, but yeah no I won't be cheering on no "color revolution" leaders aiming for economic shocktherapy while allying with neo-nazis, thanks. I hope that's not where this will end up and they lose their grip, but I need a bit more than hope before I can adopt your casual attitude to neo-nazis gaining in force._________________A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

wildstein is the former high-school classmate that christie said he "never really hung out with" (christie being an athlete and popular and all) after the scandal broke.

heard an interview on pbs the other night with a guy who is trying to come up with english equivalents of foreign words including 'schadenfreud', but really, it works so well._________________aka: neverscared!

Okay so this is nowhere as serious as all the horrible wars going on everywhere but I just thought it was funny. Diehard shipping fans are just going nuts over this. I love my HP shipping too but not enough that I insist it must become canon._________________Home is where the bra isn't.

None of the relationships in HP made a lick of sense. If I were going to regret one, it would be HP and Ginny._________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

I think she should have just not paired up any of the main characters, and definitely shouldn't have had that weird epilogue. Honestly, most of the time I just pretend the seventh book didn't really happen. I think I've read it once, while I've read the first five books over and over again. Sixth I think I've read twice.

I pretend the epilogue doesn't exist because it was way too weird. I can deal with the rest, even if the romance parts didn't exactly excite me (I've never been much of a romance in books person)._________________Home is where the bra isn't.

I think she should have just not paired up any of the main characters, and definitely shouldn't have had that weird epilogue. Honestly, most of the time I just pretend the seventh book didn't really happen. I think I've read it once, while I've read the first five books over and over again. Sixth I think I've read twice.

I dunno, I think book Seven *did* help cement Snape into one of the more interesting characters of the series.

/Also apparently Rowling had told Alan Rickman the *entire* character arc when they started making the films, and gave him final say over the direction of his character._________________"No, but evil is still being --Is having reason-- Being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being... Like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason."
-Ed, from Digger

Yeah, I feel Snape's characterization was the only really redeeming part of the later books as far as I'm concerned.
I can kind of understand the "this doesn't make sense, why pair these bozos up?" decision. There is a lot of value in avoiding cliches, even (especially?) in children's/young adult literature. Real life doesn't usually work out such that your OTP hooks up either, and a lot of times it doesn't seem to make sense. Frankly, who ended up with whom doesn't bother me.
But then again you're not privy to all of a person's private thoughts IRL like you can be in a narrative. I just felt like there wasn't enough in the books building up to the final arrangements of relationships, when there really could have been. That's one of the advantages fiction has, you can give the reader a more in-depth understanding of what's going on than they can often get if they were just spectators in situ. We didn't really get any of that.